Vanes Patents (Class 415/191)
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Patent number: 12188363Abstract: An air turbine starter that includes a housing. The housing can circumscribe a turbine coupled that is coupled to a gear train in a gear box via a drive shaft. The gear train can couple to an output shaft via at least a carrier. The air turbine starter can include at least a first bearing assembly and a second bearing assembly to rotatably support the drive shaft and the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Amit Arvind Kurvinkop, David Raju Yamarthi, David Allan Dranschak, Brian Christopher Kemp, Marc David Zinger, Parmeet Singh Chhabra, Roberto Karpik, Eliel Fresco Rodriguez
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Patent number: 12123430Abstract: An inlet guide vane mechanism comprises: a flow guide body having a front end section, a middle section and a rear end section, wherein the front end section, the middle section and the rear end section respectively have streamline contours in symmetry about the impeller axis and are transitionally connected by smooth curved surfaces, the flow guide body comprises an air inlet pipe arranged along the impeller axis, one end of the air inlet pipe being fixed at the front end section of the flow guide body, and the other end thereof being fixed at the rear end section of the flow guide body; a support structure for fixing the flow guide body at the air inlet end of the centrifugal compressor; and a plurality of inlet guide vanes rotatably fixed in the circumferential direction of the middle section of the flow guide body through a rotating shaft thereof, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Yu, Fujin Feng, Huiliang Zhang, Qunyi Ma, Vishnu Sishtla
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Patent number: 12068659Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to techniques for radial alignment of motor components relative to each other to achieve a motor with a rotor bore having sub-micron end-to-end deviation. In an embodiment, a rotor bore alignment tool is disclosed herein that can be inserted between motor components, and more particularly, apertures/through holes defined by each of the motor components such as housing sections and a stator assembly. The rotor bore alignment tool includes expandable members that can be selectively transitioned to an extended position to cause each of the motor components to be radially aligned prior to securely coupling the same in a so-called “stack” to form a motor. Once the motor components are coupled together, the resulting motor includes a rotor shaft extending from end-to-end that preferably includes a sub-micron deviation of less than 10 microns, and more preferably less than or equal to 5 microns, for example.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventor: Reza Aini
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Patent number: 12018691Abstract: A vacuum pump comprising: a rotor rotatably mounted within a stator; the rotor comprising a plurality of angled blades arranged along a helical path from an inlet to an outlet; the stator comprising a plurality of perforated elements forming a plurality of perforated discs arranged to intersect the helical path at different axial positions, the perforations allowing gas molecules travelling along the helical path to pass through the perforated elements. Each of the perforated discs comprises an outer curved wall forming an outer circumference of the disc and an inner curved wall forming a portion of an inner circumference of the disc, the inner circumference comprising at least one gap where there is no inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Edwards LimitedInventors: Nigel Paul Schofield, Stephen Dowdeswell
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Patent number: 11939872Abstract: A miniaturized turbogenerator (200) to directly provide electrical propulsion (307 308, 309) to small land, air, and maritime vehicles without an intervening electricity storage battery (315). The invention comprises of a process of miniaturization (500) of a turbine engine core (100), in particular its compressors and turbines (400), by means of hyper-feed machining by linear force alone, i.e. without rotation of either the workpiece or the cutting tool (505), and a resulting apparatus of a miniaturized turbogenerator (200) that has sufficient power density to provide high-performance electrical propulsion (310) for commercially feasible automobiles, urban air mobility vehicles, and other small vehicles and vessels with greater performance than battery-electric vehicles (300).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Tennine Corp.Inventors: William Q. Tingley, William Q. Tingley, III, Daniel R. Bradley
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Patent number: 11867081Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Abdulhalim Twahir, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Daniel Lecuyer, Masoud Roshan Fekr, Stephane Bigras
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Patent number: 11767767Abstract: A turbine stator sector includes a plurality of vanes extending along a radial direction between a first end and a second end and along an axial direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The sector further includes an internal shroud linked to the first end of the vanes and an external shroud linked to the second end of the vanes. The sector includes at least one annular portion forming all or part of the internal shroud or of the external shroud. The annular portion includes a first partition present at the junction with the first or the second end of the vanes and a second partition held spaced from the first partition along the radial direction by a three-dimensional structure including a plurality of cutouts.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Laurent Gilles Dezouche, Sophie Martine Jobez, Julien Marc Antoine Prevost
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Patent number: 11761457Abstract: A guide device for directing a gas through gas pressurizing device, includes at least one part-ring shaped guide member having a pair of opposite first end and second end defining a gap therebetween, a lip extending from the guide member, and at least one groove configured in the gas pressurizing device to receive the guide member. The guide device provides a smooth passage to gas flow through a gas pressurizing device by directing gas through the gas pressurizing device, so as to improve efficiency and performance of the gas pressurizing device and eliminate need of fasteners, holes or brackets. The guide device is easy to mount in a gas pressurizing device as compared to conventional baffle ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ATLAS COPCO (WUXI) COMPRESSOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Rakeshkumar Natubhai Patel
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Patent number: 11698192Abstract: A combustor liner assembly includes a first liner panel that has a first forward end and a first aft end. A second liner panel has a second forward end and a second aft end. A support band has a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes. The support band is arranged between the first liner panel and the second liner panel. The support band has a protrusion with a first angled surface and a second angled surface. The first angled surface is in engagement with the first aft end and the second angled surface in engagement with the second forward end.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Salvatore D'Alessandro, Gary J. Dillard
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Patent number: 11674432Abstract: A cooling assembly configured to reduce backflow suction in a mobile platform including a prime mover, at least one heat exchanger fluidly connected to the prime mover, a blower upstream of the at least one heat exchanger configured to generate a current of cooling air to cool the at least one heat exchanger, and a backflow suction reduction member positioned downstream of the blower and upstream of the at least one heat exchanger, the backflow suction reduction member defining an internal channel including a first opening at one end, a second opening at a second end, and at least one third opening positioned between the first and second ends. The backflow suction reduction member is configured to receive airflow through the first and second openings and discharge the airflow through the at least one third opening in a region where air is backflowing from the at least one heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Clark Equipment CompanyInventor: Jan Somsedik
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Patent number: 11661850Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil section that has an airfoil wall that defines a leading end, a trailing end, and first and second convex sides that join the leading end and the trailing end. The first and second convex sides span in a longitudinal direction between first and second ends. The first and second convex sides define lateral bounds of an internal core cavity, and the first and second convex sides converge toward each other at each of the first and second ends such that the internal core cavity constricts at the first and second ends. A multi-piece baffle is disposed in the internal core cavity and has a shape that is complementary to the first and second convex sides.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
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Patent number: 11655758Abstract: A vane arc segment includes a platform and an airfoil section that extends in a radial direction from the platform. The airfoil section has a pressure side and a suction side. The platform defines fore and aft axial sides, a core gaspath side, a non-core gaspath side, and first and second flanges that project from the non-core gaspath side. The first and second flanges define, respectively, first and second circumferential mate faces. The first and second flanges each are formed of upturned fiber plies from the platform such that the fiber plies in the first and second flanges are radially-oriented. The first and second circumferential mate faces have, respectively, first and second seal slots that each extend in a ply through-thickness direction across two or more of the fiber plies.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jon Erik Sobanski, Howard J. Liles
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Patent number: 11639666Abstract: A fluid machine for an aircraft engine has: first and second walls; a gaspath defined between the first wall and the second wall; a rotor having blades rotatable about the central axis; and a stator having: a row of vanes having airfoils including leading edges, trailing edges, pressure sides and suction sides opposed the pressure sides, and depressions defined in the first wall, the depressions extending from a baseline surface of the first wall away from the second wall, a depression of the depressions located circumferentially between a pressure side of the pressure sides and a suction side of the suction sides, the depression axially overlapping the airfoils and located closer to the suction side than to the pressure side, an upstream end of the depression located closer to a leading edge of the leading edges than to a trailing edge of the trailing edges.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Hien Duong, Vijay Kandasamy
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Patent number: 11598286Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a propulsor section, a compressor section including a low pressure compressor and a second compressor section, and a turbine section including a low pressure turbine and a high pressure turbine. The low pressure turbine drives the low pressure compressor and the gear arrangement to drive the propulsor. A core split power ratio is provided by power input to the high pressure compressor divided by a power input to the low pressure compressor measured in horsepower.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel Bernard Kupratis, Frederick M. Schwarz
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Patent number: 11576538Abstract: An electric blower includes a motor unit, a shaft, a centrifugal impeller, a fan cover, a motor unit case, and a bracket located away from centrifugal impeller and toward motor unit in a direction in which a central axis of the shaft extends. The bracket includes a first portion located outward of the vent in a radial direction, and a second portion located outward of the first portion and outward of an outer circumference of the motor unit case in the radial direction. A first airflow passage and a second airflow passage are formed in the bracket, the first and second airflow passages communicate with an airflow passage formed by the centrifugal impeller and the fan cover.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naho Adachi, Takashi Ikeda, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Mamoru Hayatsu, Mitsumasa Hamazaki, Masaya Teramoto
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Patent number: 11560802Abstract: A blade and gas turbine include a stationary blade main body provided internally with cavities, and an inner shroud linked to an end portion, in the longitudinal direction, of the stationary blade main body, and which is internally provided with an inner shroud cooling passage with which a first cavity is in fluid communication. The inner shroud is provided, in front edge corner portions, with a first chamfered portion intersecting a front surface, a side surface, and an upper surface, and first cooling holes in fluid communication with the inner shroud cooling passage are provided in the first chamfered portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Otomo, Shogo Furukawa
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Patent number: 11519272Abstract: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul G. Deivernois, Kevin Michael Barnett, Matthew John McKeever, Michael James Healy
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Patent number: 11512595Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Fariba Ajalli, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Michael Paolucci, Othmane Leghzaouni, Stephane Bigras
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Patent number: 11506219Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a blowing apparatus comprising a body including an impeller equipped with vanes including an opening therein to allow air to pass through the vane when the impeller is rotating.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: IMMEUBLES MFP 1006 INC.Inventor: Mario Houle
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Patent number: 11499441Abstract: A compressor stator vane unit includes multiple compressor stator vanes disposed at a certain interval in a circumferential direction; and an annular joint member connected with inner ends of the multiple compressor stator vanes; wherein the annular joint member constitutes an outer diameter side surface of a leakage fluid flow path provided in an inner diameter side of the joint member to communicate a high-pressure space with a low-pressure space respectively located downstream and upstream of the multiple compressor stator vanes in a fluid flow direction, and D/P is set to 0.05?D/P?0.2, wherein D is defined as a distance in an axial direction between an upstream end surface of the annular joint member and an upstream edge of the multiple compressor stator vanes in the fluid flow direction and P is defined as a pitch between the adjacent compressor stator vanes in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Ryosuke Seki
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Patent number: 11459907Abstract: A variable capacity turbocharger may include a turbine housing, a variable capacity mechanism, and a cover. The turbine housing may include a scroll flow path, a cylindrical portion having a shroud surface facing blades of a turbine impeller, and an exhaust gas outlet flow path. The variable capacity mechanism may be attached to the turbine housing and may include a first plate and a second plate facing each other, and a plurality of variable nozzle vanes disposed between the first plate and the second plate. The cover may be disposed outside the cylindrical portion in a radial direction to face the second plate in an axial direction and to form a part of the scroll flow path. The cover may be attached to the turbine housing such that a gap is formed between the cover and the second plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Inventor: Kenichi Segawa
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Patent number: 11454119Abstract: An internal core profile for a second stage turbine nozzle airfoil of a gas turbine is provided. The turbine nozzle may include an airfoil core having an uncoated nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1, wherein the X, Y, and Z coordinates are distances in inches measured in a Cartesian coordinate system, the corresponding X and Y coordinates, when connected by a smooth continuous arc, define one of a plurality of airfoil core profile sections at each Z distance, and the plurality of airfoil core profile sections, when joined together by smooth continuous arcs, define an airfoil core shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Inventors: Jinuk Kim, Kwangil Kim, Barry Brown, Jeff Greenberg, Darryl Eng, David Day
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Patent number: 11415012Abstract: A fluid machine has: first and second walls; a gaspath defined between the first wall and the second wall; a rotor having blades rotatable about the central axis; and a tandem having: a first row of first vanes having first airfoils including first leading edges, first trailing edges, first pressure sides and first suction sides opposed the first pressure sides, and a second row of second vanes downstream of the first vanes and having second airfoils including second leading edges, second trailing edges, second pressure sides and second suction sides opposed the second pressure sides, the first vanes being circumferentially offset from the second vanes; and depressions defined in the first wall, a depression of the depressions located circumferentially between a pressure side of the first pressure sides and a suction side of the second suction sides, the depressions axially overlapping the first airfoils and the second airfoils.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Hien Duong, Vijay Kandasamy
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Patent number: 11401816Abstract: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in one of Table I, Table II, Table III, or Table IV. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul G. Deivernois, Lauren Alexandra Schuhle, Michael James Dutka, Venkata Siva Prasad Chaluvadi, Corey Lynn Hubbert, Timothy E. Dejoris, Marcus Edward Blohm, Jeremy Peter Latimer
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Patent number: 11384640Abstract: A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil that extends from a platform. The platform may include a first portion of a nominal platform contour substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X?, Y?, and Z? as set forth in Table II. The Cartesian coordinate values of X?, Y?, and Z? are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X?, Y?, and Z? by a height of the airfoil defined along a Z? axis. The X? and Y? values of the first portion are coordinate values that, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define contour lines of the first portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z? coordinate value. The contour lines may be joined smoothly with one another to form the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jalindar Appa Walunj, Sylvain Pierre, Prem Venugopal
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Patent number: 11377961Abstract: An airfoil profile for a second stage turbine nozzle of a gas turbine is provided. The turbine nozzle may include an airfoil portion having an uncoated nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1, wherein the X, Y, and Z coordinates are distances in inches measured in a Cartesian coordinate system, the corresponding X and Y coordinates, when connected by a smooth continuous arc, define one of a plurality of airfoil profile sections at each Z distance, and the plurality of airfoil profile sections, when joined together by smooth continuous arcs, define an airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Inventors: Jinuk Kim, Kwangil Kim, Jason Kopko, Jeff Greenberg, Darryl Eng, David Day
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Patent number: 11371354Abstract: A rotor for a turbofan booster section associated with a fan section of a gas turbine engine includes a rotor blade having an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge and a mean camber line. The airfoil has a delta inlet blade angle defined as a difference between a local inlet blade angle defined in a spanwise location, and a root inlet blade angle defined at the root. The delta inlet blade angle decreases in the spanwise direction from the root to a minimum value at greater than 10% span and from the minimum value, the delta inlet blade angle increases to the tip. The rotor includes a rotor disk coupled to the rotor blade configured to be coupled to the shaft or the fan to rotate with the shaft or the fan, respectively, at the same speed as the shaft or the fan.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Nick Nolcheff, John Repp, Bruce Reynolds, John Gunaraj
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Patent number: 11326461Abstract: A hybrid grommet assembly for a vane comprising a body portion comprising a first lip opposite a second lip forming a slot receiver, said slot receiver configured to receive a shroud slot of a shroud; said body portion comprising a vane receiver extending from said body portion and configured to receive a vane; a fiber integral within said body portion; and a potting coupled to said grommet proximate said vane receiver, wherein said potting fills a gap between the grommet and the vane.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Colin G. Amadon, Thomas Freeman
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Patent number: 11306594Abstract: Compressor components, such as blades and vanes, having an airfoil portion with an uncoated, nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1. X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z distance in inches. The profile sections at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Matthew D. Montgomery, William Brian Diggs, Jaewook Song, Jerry W. Wood, John Orosa
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Patent number: 11300135Abstract: A variable stator vane includes: a stator vane body which includes a radial end surface forming a clearance between the radial end surface and an outer peripheral surface of an inner casing; a rotation shaft which is rotatable so that an angle of the stator vane body with respect to a flow direction of a main stream of a working fluid is varied and which is connected to the radial end surface; and a curved surface portion which is formed on a vane surface adjacent to the radial end surface protruding radially outward from a circumference of the rotation shaft. A curvature radius of the curved surface portion is gradually decreased with distance away from the rotation shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Yamashita, Ryosuke Mito
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Patent number: 11300004Abstract: A guide vane arrangement for a turbomachine, wherein the guide vane arrangement has a plurality of adjustable guide vanes that are rotatably mounted around an adjustment axis, at least one inner ring segment that is formed separately from the guide vanes, and a seal carrier that is formed separately from the at least one inner ring segment, wherein the at least one inner ring segment is fastened to one guide vane or to a plurality of guide vanes, and wherein the seal carrier is mounted in a spoke-centered manner with respect to the at least one inner ring segment, so that the seal carrier is movably mounted with respect to the at least one inner ring segment in the direction of at least one adjustment axis of at least one guide vane.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Frank Stiehler
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Patent number: 11255346Abstract: A fan (radial or axial fan), with an impeller and with a preguide device in the flow path in front of the impeller, preferably in front of the inlet region of an inlet nozzle, has the preguide device as a preguide grid with webs and/or guide vanes which are arranged and shaped such that flow influencing in the circumferential direction occurs for a substantially swirl-free inflow.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SEInventor: Frieder Loercher
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Patent number: 11230939Abstract: A vane seal system includes a first non-rotatable vane segment that has a first airfoil with a first pocket at one end thereof. A second non-rotatable vane segment includes a second airfoil with a second pocket at one end thereof spaced by a gap from the first pocket. A seal member spans across the gap and extends in the first pocket and the second pocket. The seal member includes a seal element and at least one spring portion configured to positively locate the seal member in a sealing direction. Also disclosed is a seal for a vane seal system and a method related thereto for damping relative movement between a first pocket and a second pocket.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Mark J. Rogers, Carl S. Richardson, Richard K. Hayford, Kenneth E. Carman, Jonathan J. Earl
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Patent number: 11225976Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (1) for a fluid machine, in particular for a radial fan (2), comprising at least one housing part (3), wherein the housing part (3) has at least one inlet opening (7), wherein the housing part (3) can at least partially delimit a fluid chamber (8) for receiving at least one fan wheel (9), and wherein the inlet opening (7), at least in part, has a curved inlet surface (11).Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: KA Group AGInventors: Florian Weinzierl, Dumitru-Cristian Leu, Winfried Helmenstein
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Patent number: 11220910Abstract: A stator that has vanes extending between a first end and a second end along a span and from a leading edge to a trailing edge along a chord length, the vanes having a first end portion extending from the first end to about 30% of the span to a first location, a chord ratio of the chord length at the first end to the chord length at the first location greater than or equal to 1.1, a throat ratio of a width of a throat between two adjacent vanes at the first location to a width of the throat at the first end is greater than or equal to 1.3, a sweep angle difference between a maximum sweep angle of the leading edge along the first end portion and a minimum sweep angle of the leading edge along the first end portion is at least 15 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Alexandre Capron, Karan Anand, Hien Duong
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Patent number: 11199095Abstract: The present application provides a turbine blade. The turbine blade includes a root section with a first curved section, a tip section with a second curved section, and number of mean sections positioned between the root section and the tip section. The mean sections each include a substantially prismatic shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Brian Robert Haller, Ivan William Mcbean
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Patent number: 11181120Abstract: A rotor blade for a compressor of a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil extending from a root to a tip and having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has a span that extends from 0% at the root to 100% at the tip and a mean camber line that extends from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil has a total camber distribution that increases from the root to a maximum value of total camber between 5% of the span and 20% of the span.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Nick Nolcheff, Jeffrey Hayes, John A. Gunaraj, Yoseph Gebre-Giorgis, David Richard Hanson, John Repp
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Patent number: 11181003Abstract: A first-stage turbine vane supporting structure reduces chordal leakage between a first-stage turbine vane segment and its supporting ring. The structure includes a first-stage turbine vane segment including an outer platform, an inner platform, and a first-stage turbine vane disposed between the inner and outer platforms; an inner rail protruding from the inner platform in a longitudinal direction of the first-stage turbine vane; a supporting ring for supporting the first-stage turbine vane segment by engaging with the inner rail while facing one surface of the inner rail; a supporting member engaging with the supporting ring to define a U-shaped space bordered by three side surfaces surrounding the inner rail; and a flexible member interposed between the inner rail and one of the three side surfaces of the U-shaped space. A protrusion formed on the inner rail engages with a sealing surface of the supporting ring in an airtight manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Inventor: Dong Hwa Kim
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Patent number: 11174203Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) turbine nozzle shell is provided. The method includes: assembling a primary outer nozzle platform, a primary inner nozzle platform, a core and trailing edge preform, and an airfoil-shaped body; joining the primary outer nozzle platform to a secondary outer nozzle platform of the airfoil-shaped body; and joining the primary inner nozzle platform to a secondary inner nozzle platform of the airfoil-shaped body. Composite plies circumferentially surround the airfoil-shaped body, and their longitudinal edges are cut into fingers that are folded down. The fingers are interleaved between secondary platform plies to form the secondary outer and inner nozzle platforms.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Peter de Diego, John Ellington Greene, David Randall Hobart, James Joseph Murray, III
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Patent number: 11125101Abstract: A sealing ring for a turbomachine, in particular a compressor or turbine stage of a gas turbine is provided, the sealing ring having an, in particular at least partially honeycomb-like and/or integral, seal, in particular an abradable coating (13); a profile cross section of the sealing ring, which is in particular at least partially manufactured by a generative manufacturing process, varying in the circumferential direction, in particular at least in some regions continuously and/or non-continuously at one or more circumferential positions, in particular separation points.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Christian Scherer, Peter Eibelshaeuser, Steffen Schlothauer, Andreas Jakimov, Juergen Kraus
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Patent number: 11116959Abstract: Mechanical circulatory supports configured to operate in series with the native heart are disclosed. In an embodiment, an intravascular propeller is installed into the descending aorta and anchored within via an expandable anchoring mechanism. The propeller and anchoring mechanism may be foldable so as to be percutaneously deliverable to the aorta. The propeller may have foldable blades. The blades may be magnetic and may be driven by a concentric electromagnetic stator circumferentially outside the magnetic blades. The stator may be intravascular or may be configured to be installed around the outer circumference of the blood vessel. The support may create a pressure rise between about 20-50 mmHg, and maintain a flow rate of about 5 L/min. The support may have one or more pairs of contra-rotating propellers to modulate the tangential velocity of the blood flow. The support may have static pre-swirlers and or de-swirlers.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Inventors: Theodosios Alexander, Martin T. Rothman
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Patent number: 11078882Abstract: A runner for a hydraulic turbine configured to reduce fish mortality. The runner includes a hub and a plurality of blades extending from the hub. Each blade includes a root connected to the hub and a tip opposite the root. Each blade further includes a leading edge opposite a trailing edge, and a ratio of a thickness of the leading edge to a diameter of the runner can range from about 0.06 to about 0.35. Further, each blade has a leading edge that is curved relative to a radial axis of the runner.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Natel Energy, Inc.Inventors: Abraham D. Schneider, Sterling Marina Watson
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Patent number: 11066934Abstract: The present application provides a turbine rotor blade including an airfoil shape and a trailing edge shape. The airfoil shape may have a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I, while the trailing edge profile is defined by Table II. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a height of the airfoil in the unit of distance (e.g., inches). The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The airfoil profile sections at Z distances may be joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Alexander Stein, Mark Steven Honkomp, Mehmet Suleyman Ciray
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Patent number: 11028822Abstract: A wind turbine comprises a nacelle, a drive shaft extending from the nacelle along a shaft axis, a plurality of turbine blades coupled to the drive shaft and extending radially relative to the shaft axis, and a first static airfoil structure coupled to the wind turbine to influence airflow exiting the plurality of turbine blades. A method of increasing wind turbine efficiency in a wind farm comprises positioning a first wind turbine having a first plurality of turbine blades at least partially upstream of a second wind turbine having a second plurality of turbine blades, producing a wake field of exit air behind the first plurality of turbine blades, directing air outside of the wake field into the wake field to increase speed of airflow in the wake field, and directing the airflow into the second plurality of turbine blades of the second wind turbine.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Shujaut Bader, Blair Perot
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Patent number: 11022087Abstract: The double-regulated turbine comprises a spherical hub, adapted to rotate around a first rotation axis, and blades, which are each able to be swivelled relative to the hub around a second rotation axis, transversal to the first rotation axis, by respective coupling flanges that are mounted fixedly on the spherical hub and that include each an attachment surface for a corresponding blade. The attachment surface of the coupling flanges includes a flat portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Alstom Renewable TechnologiesInventor: Hai Trieu Phan
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Patent number: 11002293Abstract: A compressor rotor for a gas turbine engine includes a hub disposed about an axis of rotation and an outer surface forming a radially inner gaspath boundary, the outer surface defining a nominal hub diameter. A circumferential array of blades extends radially outwardly from the hub. A first inter-blade passage is defined between a first set of adjacent blades and has a first throat area. A second inter-blade passage is defined between a second set of adjacent blades and has a second throat area that is smaller than the first throat area. At least one scoop is disposed in the second inter-blade passage, the scoop defining a cavity extending radially into the outer surface of the hub relative to the nominal hub diameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Karan Anand, Farid Abrari, Ernest Adique, Paul Aitchison, Daniel Fudge, Kari Heikurinen, Paul Stone, Tibor Urac, Thomas Veitch
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Patent number: 10968777Abstract: A vane for a gas turbine engine includes at least one airfoil. A first platform has a first rail located at a first end of the airfoil. A second platform has a second rail located at a second end of the airfoil. A first chordal seal is located on an axially aft surface of the first rail. A second chordal seal is located on an aft surface of the second rail and has a second radius of curvature at least partially truncated by an outer edge of the second rail.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Kyle J. Brevick
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Patent number: 10934870Abstract: The present disclosure is related to turbine vane assemblies comprising ceramic matrix composite materials. The turbine vane assemblies further including reinforcements that strengthen joints in the turbine vane assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: Rolls Royce CorporationInventors: Michael J. Whittle, Daniel K. Vetters, Jeffrey A. Walston, Eric Koenig
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Patent number: 10837316Abstract: A strut shield collar can include: a tubular portion including a tubular inside surface and a tubular outside surface; a flange portion extended from the tubular portion toward an outside of the tubular portion and including a flange inside surface; and a grid type mesh formed on at least one of the tubular inside surface and the flange inside surface, wherein the grid type mesh comprises a groove portion and a rib portion, and the groove portion is thinner than the rib portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., LtdInventor: Chad Garner
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Patent number: 10837298Abstract: A turbine nozzle having an airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1, and within an envelope of approximately +/?0.049 inches, where the X and Y values are in inches and the Z values are non-dimensional values from 0 to 1 and convertible to Z distances in inches by multiplying the Z values by the height of the airfoil in inches. The X and Y values are distances which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form the airfoil shape. The X and Y values may also be scaled as a function of a first constant and the Z values may be scaled as a function of a second constant.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Chromalloy Gas Turbine LLCInventors: David G. Parker, Zhenhua Xiao, Richard Yu, Vincent C. Martling, Mariano Medrano, Jr., Charles A. Ellis